On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Zhuran finished breakfast, and some inconsequential but petty stewards in the house would also come to Zhuran to pay New Year's greetings and ask for money. Zhu Ran received them one by one, if it weren't for this time, Zhu Ran really didn't know where to use the monthly monthly silver. Shui Xin and Ruoyi stood on both sides of Zhuran with money bags, as long as they were people who came to pay New Year's greetings, regardless of their status, they would each have one or two pieces of silver. On the market, a bucket of rice and five horses of silk are not the same copper coins, and one or two pieces of silver are really a lot, and everyone is happy.

After sending the last person away, Shui Xin pinched the money bag that was originally bulging but was empty at this time, and pouted: "These ghosts who want to pay accounts won't come here if they don't come over to ask for some reward, why should Mrs. be polite to them!" ”

Ruoyi put down the money bag, poured tea and handed it to Zhu Ran, and said with a smile: "After a busy morning, the lady is thirsty!" ”

Zhu Ran took the tea handed over by Ruoyi, stood up from the chair, straightened his waist and said: "Shui Xin, it's useless for us to ask for this silver, why don't you give it to them, save the space, they came, and filled the courtyard with popularity, why not do it!" ”

Shui Xin sneered, "Madame is really good at comforting herself!" ”

In the evening, a maid came to pass the word, saying, "Manager Li invites the princess to go to the Hongde Palace." ”

When Zhu Ran arrived, he learned that the palace sent someone to send an edict, which roughly meant that Zhu Heyu, the prince of Ruixin, cared about his family and country, and could not return when he fought outside for the festive season, and gave him some gold and jewelry. Zhu Ran and Li Wenhai knelt down to thank him. After getting up, a thin old eunuch handed the decree to Zhuran, Zhu Heyu was not there, and there was really no one else in the house, so she could only be the princess on her side to receive the decree on behalf of Zhu Heyu.

Just when Zhu Ran and Li Wenhai thought that the old eunuch was going to drive back to the palace, they didn't expect the old eunuch to take out something from his sleeve and say to Zhu Ran in a very sharp voice: "Princess Fang, the queen mother has a reward!" Zhu Ran took a brocade box handed over by the old eunuch, opened it ceremoniously in front of the old eunuch, and placed a damaged step shake inside, puzzled in his heart, but he didn't dare to kneel down and thank him: "Concubine Xie Queen Mother Raise Love, Queen Mother Chitose Chitose Chitose Chitose." ”

When he looked up, he saw Li Wenhai looking at the steps in the brocade box with an extremely ugly face, and after the old eunuch left, Zhu Ran said to Li Wenhai: "This thing is given by the queen's mother, I think it is of great significance, and I have to trouble Manager Li to hand it over to the prince." ”

Li Wenhai didn't shirk it, as if he was satisfied with Zhu Ran's approach, took the brocade box, and then said hello to Zhu Ran and retreated.

In fact, since the old eunuch deliberately said that it was the queen's mother and the side princess in addition to the holy decree, Zhu Ran just didn't hand it over to Li Wenhai, but Zhu Ran looked at Li Wenhai's face like wax, but he didn't want to cause trouble for himself, not to mention that Zhu Heyu was not born to the queen of the dynasty, Zhu Heyu was powerful, and the queen's mother, as the prince's biological mother, gave Zhu Heyu a damaged step on the first day of the new year.

On the morning of the third day of junior high school, the palace invited a popular opera troupe from Kyoto to set up a stage in the garden to sing. Shui Xin and Ruoyi were going to join in the fun, and Zhu Ran also followed them to the garden. I really felt bored after watching a play, but it can be seen that Ruoyi and Shui Xin were looking at it with interest, so they endured boredom and watched it again. When I went back, it was already Shen Shi, and along the way, Ruoyi and Shui Xin were talking about which Hua Dan sang well in the troupe and which Xiao Chang was handsome. Zhu Ran stopped at the gate of the courtyard, looked up at the three big characters on the plaque of the courtyard gate: "Fuhuan Yuan" unconsciously asked: "Are these words written by the prince himself?" Zhu Ran didn't think much about it in his heart, just looked at these three words flying like a tiger, and asked casually.

But when Shui Xin and Ruoyi heard this, they thought that Zhu Ran cared about the meaning of these three words, so they immediately stopped talking. Zhu Ran looked back at the two of them, and realized that he was afraid that the two girls had misunderstood what he asked, but he didn't bother to explain, and walked straight towards the courtyard.

Shui Xin and Ruoyi thought that Zhu Ran was angry, and followed Zhu Ran in a depressed manner, and they didn't say anything for a long time.

Before going to bed, Zhu Ran sorted out the flower seeds, thinking about what flowers to plant in the yard this year. I saw Shui Xin walking in with a smile, holding a pen and paper. Ruoyi followed behind, holding an ink tray and an inkstone.

"The prince hasn't come back, Madame should write a letter to the prince!" Ruoyi said.

Zhu Ran shook her head and smiled bitterly, this is thoughtful, what can she say to Zhu Heyu!

"Just for my letter, how many post stations I have to pass along the way, how many people and horses will be alarmed, and it is better not to do this thing that costs people and money." Zhu Ran looked at the two of them with a smile.

"This post station is not specially opened for Mrs., and the fast horse is not specially raised for Mrs., Mrs. does not write letters, and there are people who write letters, how can you say that you will work hard and hurt your money!" Shui Xin took Zhu Ran's words on the side.

Zhu Ran glared at Shui Xin, and then prevaricated: "I'm tired and tired today, I'll write it tomorrow!" ”

"Can't Madame be interested in the prince? How many people outside want to write a letter to the prince and don't have a chance! Ruoyi persuaded.

Zhu Heyu wants to be powerful and powerful, to have status, to have ability, to have good looks, but he is not a good person. Shui Xin and Ruoyi and others only saw the front of Zhu Heyu, and his negative side may only be seen by Zhu Ran. As Yudi said, people must be self-aware, or they will hurt others and themselves if they don't come to the end, and it can't be talked about hurting others, but they will hurt themselves. Zhu Ran likes to be cold and indifferent to Zhu Heyu like this, but these two girls kept pushing her to Zhu Heyu's side, but they really pushed it over, Zhu Heyu flashed, it was not herself who was injured, Zhu Ran thought that she would not write this letter today.

"Take it down, I don't want to write it."

Shui Xin and Ruoyi saw that they couldn't move Zhu Ran, so one held a pen and paper, the other held an ink tray and an inkstone, looked at Zhu Ran, and Zhu Ran also looked at them, three pairs of eyes looked at each other, and the three of them were uncomfortable in the afternoon, and the atmosphere became more and more wrong at this time, and they were stalemate for an hour. Zhu Ran suddenly had a sour nose, turned his head first, tears flowed down, and hurriedly wiped them away. Shui Xin saw Zhuran crying, and also cried, threw the things in his hand on the ground with a snap, and ran out crying. Seeing this, Ruoyi sighed and put down the things in his hand, wiping his tears while bending down to pick up the paper and pen on the ground.

"If you don't write, don't write, for the New Year, don't cry madam, how unlucky!" Ruoyi comforted Zhuran and said.

At night, when the house was empty, Zhu Ran got up from the bed, put on a cloak, walked to the window, lifted the curtain next to the window, looked at the moon in the sky round and yellow, and the figure of another person appeared in his heart. I hope that people will last a long time, thousands of miles together, goodbye for three years, Brother Lu, are you okay?

Thinking that his hands were already very cold, he took out the tight jade pendant in the jewelry box, and the cold when he touched his hand, Zhu Ran realized that his hand was not the coldest. The jade pendant that can be fully held in one hand, the red brocade thread hanging below has faded, only the word "Lu" in the middle is still clearly visible, and the texture strokes of the word are stroked with his hand, and he feels at ease.